Developing a Facebook app with Ruby on Rails

Open-source Ajax widgets available from Dekoh
- tag cloud widget

rCache.com: similar to Google Notebook. But it saves the content so will still work if the content is moved or deleted

Academic productivity: Quicker references with Google Scholar.
Quote "This post is an ode to Google Scholar (GS). GS has a major advantage against expensive institution only academic search engines in that is free, which makes services indispensable to independent scholars wishing to get some access to research literature when they don’t have an institutional subscription. However, even though I personally have institutional access to indexing services like Web of Science and Scopus, I still prefer GS for the majority of my searches, and in this post I will explain why."

Nestoria
is a UK property website with some good features such as well thought out URLs and apparently a Facebook widget.

SignOn (beta) a no-frills OpenID/CardSpace web logon

The Loretto School entry in Wikipedia is up to date.

Facebook for the Enterprise = Facebook interesting summary of recent blogs about Facebook in an enterprise environment.

Google has updated its Custom Search Engine tools

Do scientists really believe in open science?

Google Predicted in 1964

Kim Cameron is starting to review technology for better privacy

blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

Marc Andreessen (Ning): Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

Jon Udell has a suggestion for a Facebook improvement: How do I know this person? Through the Web!

No News on the UK Government CIO website for 6 months.

Connecting to the Internet at 2Mb/sec is nice.....100Gbps is nicer still

MySQL AB :: The 12 Days of Scale-Out :: Day Five: Wikipedia
MySQL can handle 25,000 SQl queries per second.

recent presentation on semantic web and health at www conference

Web As Desktop: Remember the Milk gets Gears

Here is a database of web 2.0 applications, hosted on dabble db a web 2.0 database engine: Office 2.0 Directory

Google has sharpened interest in offline web apps with its release of the Gears API. The architecture for oppline apps is discussed here. Oakleaf systems highlights the potential clash between Google and Microsoft architectures here

Eric Schmidt - we are one click away from losing our customers.

ACRL (via Open Access News) : NIH policy on Open Access needs strengthening